| "My Father's Eyes" | ||||
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| Single by Eric Clapton | ||||
| from the album Pilgrim | ||||
| B-side | "Theme from a Movie That Never Happened", "Inside of Me" | |||
| Released | 10 March 1998 | |||
| Length | 5:24 | |||
| Label | Reprise, Duck | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Eric Clapton | |||
| Producer(s) | Eric Clapton, Simon Climie | |||
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"My Father's Eyes" is a song written and performed by British musician Eric Clapton and produced by Clapton and Simon Climie. It was released as a single in 1998 and was featured on Clapton's thirteenth solo studio album, Pilgrim (1998). The song reached the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, peaking at number 16, which remains his last top-40 hit in said country as of 2024. It also spent five weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart. It became a top-five hit in Canada, where it peaked at number two, and reached the top 20 in Austria, Iceland, and Norway. In 1999, it won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
Clapton performed this track for the first time in 1992 and again in 1996, in both electric and unplugged versions. These versions of the song were completely different from the official single release in 1998. He would later retire the song in 2004, along with "Tears in Heaven", until the 50 Years Further On Up the Road world tour in 2013.